[Buildroot] [PATCH] vim: install /bin/vi as a relative symlink

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Sun Aug 5 12:43:03 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:34:43 -0300, Carlos Santos wrote:
> Prevent creating a dangling symlink when vim is not present on the host
> machine. With BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_USR, just link to "vim", since they are
> on the same directory, otherwise link to "../usr/bin/vim".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Santos <casantos at datacom.com.br>
> ---
>  package/vim/vim.mk | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

I know there is some ongoing discussion on how to handle this better in
a more generic way, but until those discussions are resolved, I've
applied this patch to master.

Thanks!

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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